Beautifully rendered in pen and ink, Thompson has created a love story that lasts. Fan Feed More Blankets by Craig Thompson for Life Writing Wikia. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Categories Categories: Add category Cancel Save.

This groundbreaking graphic novel, winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, is an eloquent portrait of adolescent yearning first love (and first heartache) faith in crisis and the process of moving beyond all of that. 11-12, 181-182, 307, 310, 410, 458, 502, 565). It’s a universal story, and Thompson’s vibrant brushstrokes and unique page designs make the familiar heartbreaking all over again. Craig Thompsons poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small. Wrapped in the snowfall of a blustery Midwestern winter, Blankets is the tale of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and of the budding romance. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart.

Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Craig Thompson’s poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence. PREMISE: Blankets is a rite of passage about Craig Thompson, a Christian teenager, who struggles with fitting his individuality into the constraints of a. Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice.

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